Willis G. Hughes

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c1815

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1863

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White

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"Willis G. Hughes" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00003272, (accessed April 26, 2024).

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Union County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney. Washington County, Kentucky, native. Son of Edward Hughes and Letitia Reed Hughes. Married to Mary Ann Davis Hughes. Married to Bettie Barbour Hughes. Father of Edward Hughes, Sallie P. Hughes, Joshua H. Hughes, James R. Hughes, Willis G. Hughes, Kimberly Hughes, Henry H. Hughes, Lue Hughes, George E. Hughes, and Bessie Hughes. Owned five enslaved persons in Union County in 1850. Farmer and attorney in Union County in 1860. Partner and criminal lawyer of the law firm, Hughes, Dallam, and Hughes.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union, District 1, p. 371.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union, District 1, p. 371.
History of Union County, Kentucky. A Complete Account of the Settlement, Organization and Government of the County, Together with Facts and Figures Concerning the Society, Professions, Commerce, Industries, Agriculture, Coal, Railroads, Education, Religion, and Other Institutions and Recources of the County and Biographical Sketches of its Leading Citizens (Evansville, In: Courier Co., Printers, Binders and Engravers, 1886), 192-195.
Memorial Record of Western Kentucky (Cook & McDowell Publications, 1904), p. 249-50.

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